I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.

some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend.